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i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington administration particularly in so far as washington being influenced by hamilton, and, of course, they didn't like john adams and his administration either, so you did get the beginning of a kind of party politics there. then they kind of die off by the 1820s, and emerge again, so you have the jacksonian democrats and what was known as the wig party, and they fall apart in the 1850s when you get the new republican party of the lincoln who opposes the old democratic party, and those actually were some tendencies still with us. it's
i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington...
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all we ask of you, let us governor medicaid problems a little bit more. not completely, a little bit more. and it was the biggest fight of ever been in. mark and i would look at each other and just shake our heads and they, what's wrong with these guys? they wanted to fight sites that we weren't even hounding. it can't be an important lesson that the further you wrote about from the shore, the more likely you are to be lost at sea. i'm convinced we've got a lot of folks in this city who are lost at sea. justice brandeis in 1932 and i quote him because i think it's an important quote in the book, he spoke of states of being laboratories for experiments in government. this is the idea our founders had, that the states would be where the power was distributed and they would have the opportunity to try things. sometimes bold things. sometimes those things wouldn't work. and when they didn't work, not all the would make the mistake of attempting them, but that would've been one thing that was tried and put aside. mentally try something else. if it did work, al
all we ask of you, let us governor medicaid problems a little bit more. not completely, a little bit more. and it was the biggest fight of ever been in. mark and i would look at each other and just shake our heads and they, what's wrong with these guys? they wanted to fight sites that we weren't even hounding. it can't be an important lesson that the further you wrote about from the shore, the more likely you are to be lost at sea. i'm convinced we've got a lot of folks in this city who are...
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you can also send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or send us a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. next call for professor maier comes from william in manhattan beach, california. william, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: thank you. and, professor maier, and i want to know how you say your name, that's first. [laughter] you're a national treasure, thank you, madam. >> guest: well, thank you, thank you. i say maier because i inherited the pronunciation from the family of my husband to whom i will soon be married for 50 years. so, you know, at this point it would seem to me to change the pronunciation would be an act of hostility. however, i will say i answer to meyer as well, and two of my daughters have chosen to pronounce it meyer, so it gets a little confusing in this family. >> caller: maier it is, and i have two quick questions. on booktv a year or two ago i saw a gentleman talking about his book that put the american revolution as much on the -- [inaudible] and the constitution, he put it in perspective worldwide and said that the american revolution was small
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comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live all weekend if you have missed any of the events that coverage will air tonight starting at 1:00 a.m. eastern. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] as it did to ship them across the atlantic. it was enormously difficult to access the wealth. there was a great transportation network, chicago, which was formed starting off on the illinois and michigan can now had a great wateree park rails only supplemented that transportation network every city and the major waterway for the river mead says c. where it meets the mississippi river.
comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live...
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i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina has written about primary education and the way that it is unfriendly to boys. for one thing we have seen a big decline in, or a big transformation in the kinds of looks that students, young students are being asked to read. you won't find the adventure adventure books anymore, or not very much. different kinds of books that might have appealed to boys. i remember reviewing a book some time ago about the change in textbooks, history textbooks. and the writer there said that if you were to look at the updated textbooks, the post-feminist textbooks about the settling of t
i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina...
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that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this young man was their second gift from god. he died of flu a few months after he hopped on a train. another one was murdered in new york city. really grisly and bad faith. but those who came back, many of them send their children to be educated in america. these children came back to china. a lot of third and fourth generation lived here. any other questions? >> my great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my! >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is jane. you have expelled two way is. hy was known as great grandpa tie. >> there is a note in translation. we h
that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this...
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people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense information's website. go to cdi.org. >> booktv is covered over 9000 nonfiction authors and books since 1989 when it all began with book notes, c-span's original hour-long author interview program. you can watch these programs online at booktv.org. now i'm booktv, kay hymowitz says that males in the '20s and '30s prefer to put off adulthood while women, partially driven by their biological clocks, are as driven as ever. she says this phenomenon has negative implications for our society. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york cit
people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense...
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one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns away from the window, sits down, and reads, and here they come to america where a young boy who wants to be someone gets on the baseball field and plays ball, rides a horse, takes a gun and shoots, dances with girls, is allowed to look his elders in the eyes. this is a revelation for them. they were extremely, extremely happy with it. the third thing i say is they came here at a time when the country was really, really, really thriving. you know, on the way on the transcontinental railroad, they could see things like the automated reaper and the plow, and there's an energy they felt a
one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns...
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my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs and ham? >> i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. >> would you like them here or there? >> i would not like them here or there. i would not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them, sam, i am. >> would you like them in a house? would you like them with a mouse? >> i do not like them in a house. i do not like them with a mouse. i do not like them here or there. i do not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them sam i am. >> would you eat them in a box? would you eat them with a fox? >> no
my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs...
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/book tv. >> the president obama issued a proclamation that this is read across america today. [applause] alright, president obama. there we go. and so we are grateful that he did that and we are especially grateful to mrs. obama and secretary duncan. please welcome our special readers. let's hear it for them. [applause] >> alright you guys. sounds like you are pretty excited, right? what are you excited about? [laughter] thank you. we are also we are also excited about reading, right? in our house we read all the time. do you know that? the president is a reader. he read so much, he knows facts about everything. do you guys want to be fat people? so you have got to read in order to do that and we are going to start out by reading something. secretary duncan and i wear were big dr. seuss fans. arnie d. want to talk about your reading? >> they both have two children at home who are a little bit older than most of you guys. if we had a nickel for every dr. seuss book we read
tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/book tv. >> the president obama issued a proclamation that this is read across america today. [applause] alright, president obama. there we go. and so we are grateful that he did that and we are especially grateful to mrs. obama and secretary duncan. please welcome our special readers. let's hear it for them. [applause] >> alright you guys. sounds like you are pretty excited, right? what are you excited about? [laughter] thank you. we are also we...
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and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private schools. what i found was that all of the founders were in favor of the public schools. but was it was important was what they thought should be taught and what should be taught was patriotic history, math and religion. >> any other revelation? >> there's a lot in there about guns. we are chapter about guns and gun ownership. i think a couple of the recent supreme court cases have pretty much reaffirmed what the founder said, which is gun ownership was meant to be an individual right, not just for personal defense, but so that the people coll
and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private...
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the gracious ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives, and encouraged us and gave us the encouragement and direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. they didn't even think that we would be worth the trouble, and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago that he people in my life thought i was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. president reagan said the man quote didn't base his rating on gains won or lost, but on the record, the player in later life. what kind of man and the boy had become. i had a couple of coaches just like that. whose good influence i can still feel today. i still have a relationship with these coaches, these mentors in my life today. and they found a decent work ethic in me and reinforces on a daily basis. they toughened up my inside game. they gave me confidence to play with the best, and to never, ever let the other team inside my head. those are the strengths that will serve you well in any line of work. and let
the gracious ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives, and encouraged us and gave us the encouragement and direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. they didn't even think that we would be worth the trouble, and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago that he people in my life thought i was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. president reagan...
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very few people use them. the number of people have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice. and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is a rational or depressed. and i think this is part of patronizing. i don't deny for a minute that there are some people who are depressed. for example, i will give you an example of people who are depressed. there are people, people in the '60s and '70s who, when you receive a diagnosis of something like multiple sclerosis, or parkinson's, which you're eventually going to die of but unlike alzheimer's or some forms of cancer, they are manageable and treatable and you could have a meaningful life for a long time. they are not a death sentence, but there are people who treat that kind of a
very few people use them. the number of people have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice. and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is a rational or depressed. and i think this is part of patronizing. i...
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all of us together and mrs. obama and secretary duncan and dr. billington, we want to do a readers pledge with you. are you ready? >> yes. >> you got to raise your right hand. your other right hand. raise your hand. >> let's see all the hands. >> now, when you hear me say something i want you to repeat it after me so nice and loud, are you ready? are you ready? >> yeah! >> all right! i promise to read. >> i promise to read. >> each and each night. >> each day and each night. >> i know it's the key. >> to growing up right. >> i'll read to myself. i'll read to a crowd. it makes no difference. it's silent or loud. i'll read at my desk. at home and at school. on my bean bag or bed. by the fire or the pool. each book that i read puts smarts in my head. 'cause brains agree more thoughts. the more they are fed. so i take this oath. to make reading my way. of feeding my brain what it needs every day. all right, everybody, clap. [applause] >> booktv will be covering the virginia festival of the book live online on thursday march 17th and friday march 18th
all of us together and mrs. obama and secretary duncan and dr. billington, we want to do a readers pledge with you. are you ready? >> yes. >> you got to raise your right hand. your other right hand. raise your hand. >> let's see all the hands. >> now, when you hear me say something i want you to repeat it after me so nice and loud, are you ready? are you ready? >> yeah! >> all right! i promise to read. >> i promise to read. >> each and each night....
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we all have an individual responsibility to use every gift god gave us to the best of our ability. that's it? >> one more. >> okay. >> i think one of the things that struck me and my short time, i say short time, about 20 years in the business, is you mentioned the people of color who are at the top. there are -- while there's there's a great number of people like yourself making it a part of their montra to reach back, there's an equal number of those who basically decided i got mine, you go get yours. >> yes. >> i mean, what is the psychology behind that because they don't come from my time. they are certainly older than me, and is there any way, you know, any way to turn that around and make more of them responsible for what it is that they're supposed to do? >> i sometime treat my brothers and sisters who come from that environment as though they were foreign students, and that's why i wrote this book. i think they need to read and hear more of that from those of us who took the long route. a lot of us were chosen for the harvard scholarships and other groups living wherever pe
we all have an individual responsibility to use every gift god gave us to the best of our ability. that's it? >> one more. >> okay. >> i think one of the things that struck me and my short time, i say short time, about 20 years in the business, is you mentioned the people of color who are at the top. there are -- while there's there's a great number of people like yourself making it a part of their montra to reach back, there's an equal number of those who basically decided i...
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i use this event at the beginning of the book to just -- because i think it helps us to apprehend the appeal of the underground readers in the 196 0s. they put across sharply argued and forcefully written opinions and grew out of their own subculture and was the examiner, the flag ship of the hearse newspaper chain uses this prefab bring kateed -- fabricated newspapers. they started emerging in the mid-60s. someone pointed out they technically represented one of the most large spontaneous groups in publishing. there were five related newspapers. there was the east villager, the fifth of state in detroit, and for me and matt because we went to michigan state, the first campus based newspaper was in east lancing, michigan. towards the end of 1966, the papers spouted up quickly in every pocket and region of the country. by the end of the 60s, there were hundreds of newspapers in every city, campus, community with a readership that stretched into the millions combined. people sometimes asked how i got interested into the topic. it started with my dissertation at columbia. first i used the
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electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life, and we will propel, we will build jobs around the food industry just like china with their 17 vital trace elements will build steel and all of these things. but it's got to be a world of futures or -- >> and i have to say when i first started writing this, i had no idea what you just said. hopefully, if you read the book, you'll say, ah, i know what charlie's talking about. it sounds scary, but charlie knows all this because he knew it when he traded cattle, and there really is a progression so that what he says starts to make some sense
electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life,...
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how might they help us adapt? forests and wetlands are great at absorbing storm water so that is one thing i talk about in some detail in the book but didn't get into as expectation for -- i talked about higher precipitation but you expect more hurricanes. more extreme events and more floods. they help with that and also the temperature rises from shade and evaporative cooling. some of the lessons we apply on more regional scale, these big picture ideas would be that in humid areas like the tropics and eastern u.s. we can hope -- things we can do to help flood protection. we are getting extreme floods and expected to get worse. sea level rise will increase floods. doing things for flood protection, puts in more wetlands tubes of floods. but that will be a good way to keep our cities, held the lead at to climate change and in humid areas, a really good idea because we know these have been on the job taking of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide in particular and to help them do that job would be a great thing but o
how might they help us adapt? forests and wetlands are great at absorbing storm water so that is one thing i talk about in some detail in the book but didn't get into as expectation for -- i talked about higher precipitation but you expect more hurricanes. more extreme events and more floods. they help with that and also the temperature rises from shade and evaporative cooling. some of the lessons we apply on more regional scale, these big picture ideas would be that in humid areas like the...
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send us an e-mail. treat us at twitter. here is a look at a few of the upcoming book fairs and festivals from around the country. bring you coverage of the virginia festival of the book, several events this week. the entire festival will air on book tv next weekend. is it booked tv for a complete schedule. the 20th albuquerque and antiquarian book will take place. rare books, maps, and prints will be available for viewing and purchase. there will also be a silent auction of library surplus items. also on the first and second of april, the empire state but festival. this new war -- new york library has to the event will honor several writers. on april 9th book tv will be live from the ninth annual annapolis boat festival in annapolis maryland providing coverage of several nonfiction . is there a book festival happening near yu
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using their power as administrators. this went on for years, and it was basically covered up by higher ups within the state agency that oversaw that institution. and it was finally leaked out and then publicized. >> and what is a super predator? >> super predator is a word that was coined in the mid 1990s by a criminologist named john eulio. and it was originally intended to mean kids who kill without remorse, without conscious and sort of randomly. really captured in some of the popular movies of the period like "natural born killers." and in the mid 1990s you'll recall there really was kind of a national panic over violent juvenile crime, and that word payment attached to that panic -- became attached to that panic. the word carried a highly racial connotation to it. it seemed to many critics to refer to african-american and latino juveniles who were increasingly overrepresented in the incarcerated juvenile population. >> so what role do you think race plays in the problems with our juvenile justice system? >> i think
using their power as administrators. this went on for years, and it was basically covered up by higher ups within the state agency that oversaw that institution. and it was finally leaked out and then publicized. >> and what is a super predator? >> super predator is a word that was coined in the mid 1990s by a criminologist named john eulio. and it was originally intended to mean kids who kill without remorse, without conscious and sort of randomly. really captured in some of the...
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i think all of us have suggested how much we owe to this country in terms of when it provided us but we bring with us a great deal of what is now. it is diversity, potential, we are a good statement as a whole, diversity on this panel. >> i will also add that one of ways this can be broken is through allowing people through writing in areas ways to hear about the lives of people who joined this country because sometimes people are so removed from the reality of other people's lives that they think an immigrant just comes to this country and fixes everything. it is difficult to be an immigrant. it is not easy. it is a lot of hard work. just as rich americans are working hard, immigrants are coming to join. this perception that people are just coming and taking freely, they are not. they're coming and working hard and bringing something of a value and also gaining something as well. i imagine myself for example. sedna and of us were in this country at all. the average classroom setting at the university, will frankly be quite boring. in my opinion. i am serious. it sadly would be. it w
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to put enormous energy into our recruitment process and also requires us to scale up a lot. we have grown from 1,000 to 8 tracks and teachers in the last ten years but we have equally ambitious goals around increasing the measurable impact of teachers during their two years because we think it is critical for their kids and critical for the lessons they learned. in pursuit of that we tried many different things. we put in place measurement systems ourselves that were a very well-intentioned and all sorts of -- tried lots of strategies and ultimately if we got into the ins and outs of that you see the limitations of leading with measurable -- measurable results are critical but it is about mort than that and i think the culture that you build and keeping everyone grounded in what this is all about and the spirit of truly putting kids on a different trajectory, creating the right balance between a focus on measurable results and keeping everyone grounded in that spirit at the same time is a puzzle and we fear too much -- i hope we are making it happen around the spirit of thin
to put enormous energy into our recruitment process and also requires us to scale up a lot. we have grown from 1,000 to 8 tracks and teachers in the last ten years but we have equally ambitious goals around increasing the measurable impact of teachers during their two years because we think it is critical for their kids and critical for the lessons they learned. in pursuit of that we tried many different things. we put in place measurement systems ourselves that were a very well-intentioned and...
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did her publisher want -- use said her name wasn't always associated with the books. she didn't want her name on the book. but from commercial standpoint, did the publisher want her name on the book? >> i think they would have liked her name on the look but they didn't press her, they didn't press her on that and i didn't come across anybody asking her on the publisher's part, on the publisher's point of view to actually do it. oftentimes, her authors would say jackie can i please acknowledge you at least? because she did contribute to the book itself. and oftentimes, they said please, don't put me in the acknowledgement. peter, for example, want to put in the three golden keys, this book which was a profitable book actually a children's book about prague, he wanted her in the college and she said no, but he drew a little picture of his daughter in a cat costume same thing he for the dream, j.o.. so she's there. [laughter] >> one more question. >> actually, there's one right there. did you get cooperation or discussion with family members? >> the head of doubleday --
did her publisher want -- use said her name wasn't always associated with the books. she didn't want her name on the book. but from commercial standpoint, did the publisher want her name on the book? >> i think they would have liked her name on the look but they didn't press her, they didn't press her on that and i didn't come across anybody asking her on the publisher's part, on the publisher's point of view to actually do it. oftentimes, her authors would say jackie can i please...
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they are reasonably well off and elizabeth johnston's father is able to sell off the sleeves and use the proceeds to move on in their case to britain. britain will detect a theme in all these places. they were not real happy in the places the end of going and britain was no exception. the johnstons and unsettling because william johnston of the medical students and at that time edwin bird had the best medical school so they go there. he finishes his medical training but like many of the refugees they find the opportunities for employment are not so great. there's already a lot of professionals in britain and they don't miss a surly need the colonial upstarts' to fill in the ranks so they move on again under the patronage of the war time supporter of williams to jamaica and the last part of the story that i will tell you about in a little more depth is their experience in jamaica which at the time was the richest colony in the british empire and seen on the fees' a an alluring place for the refugees. its beauty could take your breath away from the sparkling surface of the water, swept
they are reasonably well off and elizabeth johnston's father is able to sell off the sleeves and use the proceeds to move on in their case to britain. britain will detect a theme in all these places. they were not real happy in the places the end of going and britain was no exception. the johnstons and unsettling because william johnston of the medical students and at that time edwin bird had the best medical school so they go there. he finishes his medical training but like many of the...
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for us it silicon valley. we have a number of very high ranking blacks in valley that you never see anything that even associated with the black. i worked very hard to establish a museum in the bay area called the museum of the african diaspora. about five years ago it open. before that, our mayor, willie brown, decided we were going to put this museum as part of the sites our saint regis hotel and convention center. the mayor could make them give us the face, but he couldn't make them pay for it. so i somehow got chosen to be the person as i was winding down my career to raise almost $6 million of the museum in two years. i did because it represented all that i respect, the oneness of the human race. the earliest relics of human life come from the african continent and the theories by the leading scientists have both berkeley and stanford are indeed this is the true story and this museum is dedicated to telling that story. and so, while i was doing that, to raise the money of horse i thought it the fat cats f
for us it silicon valley. we have a number of very high ranking blacks in valley that you never see anything that even associated with the black. i worked very hard to establish a museum in the bay area called the museum of the african diaspora. about five years ago it open. before that, our mayor, willie brown, decided we were going to put this museum as part of the sites our saint regis hotel and convention center. the mayor could make them give us the face, but he couldn't make them pay for...
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you will never know what will lead us to the tipping point. [laughter] >> you just bought yourself a good five more nice softball questions. [laughter] >> i don't know. this is growing large at this point. five years ago we had 88,000 and today we have 20,000 and if we can continue the growth trajectory we'll have 40,000 five years from now and i guess i'm looking at some critical communities where we have teach for america alums. communities where we've been placing people for, in some cases 20 years, in new orleans, in washington, d.c., and oakland, california, in houston, texas, in any other number of places, in newark, new jersey. where very different things are happening today for many reasons but if you took all the teach for america alums out of the picture, i think you'd take away of the energy and the leadership in those pictures. >> does the teach for america movement have an ideological personality? >> i think that people come out of this -- and you know we probably have a bunch -- we have a diversion community and people come into
you will never know what will lead us to the tipping point. [laughter] >> you just bought yourself a good five more nice softball questions. [laughter] >> i don't know. this is growing large at this point. five years ago we had 88,000 and today we have 20,000 and if we can continue the growth trajectory we'll have 40,000 five years from now and i guess i'm looking at some critical communities where we have teach for america alums. communities where we've been placing people for, in...
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early in the game i couldn't use the word americans very easily in this book because everybody is an american. if you go back to about 1760, everybody is a tory essentially. they are all british subjects. and they see the king as the man they're going to worship every sunday as most of them were, they are going to pray for the king, and the wherewithal, there's only one trading partner and that england, and that's the way things were but as the revolution started to percolate and the sons of italy -- [laughter] wow, where am i? the sons of liberty started functioning in boston and new york. things started to change. and a group started to question the revolution. for a while it was a political debate. i can across the club that was formed in plymouth, it was formed in 1770 or 71. go ahead and look it up, it's in the book. and there was called the old colony club pity was founded primarily by descendants passengers on the mayflower. there isn't a better american pedigree to say you descended from the mayflower. a lot of the people who descended from the mayflower and the generation of
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we are used to that. we should have a more sophisticated population now, of educated people and don't take all of this very seriously. i mean, we take these with a grain of salt and discretion and i'm not sure i see that this is as much of a threat to participatory democracy as we would -- one might charge the influence of corporations, i think, are represented in institutions, maybe and of lobbying, maybe -- another issue, to discuss. and, this one -- you ask what the 18th century would have thought and they had to real experience of this, so, all we can do is put words in their mouths and though they were very concerned with corruption, with having private interests and representative institution, there is no doubt they cared about that and what they would think of the particular form that occurs in our day, most often, a person says what they think, it is another question of their politics being put en to the mouths of people who never understood the situation we face. >> book tv's in-depth program, we
we are used to that. we should have a more sophisticated population now, of educated people and don't take all of this very seriously. i mean, we take these with a grain of salt and discretion and i'm not sure i see that this is as much of a threat to participatory democracy as we would -- one might charge the influence of corporations, i think, are represented in institutions, maybe and of lobbying, maybe -- another issue, to discuss. and, this one -- you ask what the 18th century would have...
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i said make sure you print it because it's a reminder for us, all of us including us, doctors, we need to be humble about what can and can't be cheated. so this was the background again, these missing stories, a word that can't be uttered, a word that is whispered about. the big c. and again, the question was what were the stories. and one thread became very early on is that any that somewhere in this story would have to be the story of one of the most remarkable women in recent intellectual history, and that is mary lasker. mary lasker who, among many other things, directed her philanthropic energies. she was a very unusual woman for her times, and out of a number, -- and entrepreneur, a one who directed an enormous amount of energy to solving, as she put it, transforming the geography of american health, the landscape of american health. and if there was one sort of central characters think to the story it would be mary lasker. and for mary lasker then, it very quickly, i found sidney farber who begins the book. said the farmer was mary lasker's friend. scientific collaborator, and i
i said make sure you print it because it's a reminder for us, all of us including us, doctors, we need to be humble about what can and can't be cheated. so this was the background again, these missing stories, a word that can't be uttered, a word that is whispered about. the big c. and again, the question was what were the stories. and one thread became very early on is that any that somewhere in this story would have to be the story of one of the most remarkable women in recent intellectual...
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someone might use grief to heal. somebody may use depression. for someone dealing with their illness, it might involve entering as space full of grief for depression and that maybe there mechanism. and to force my understanding of whatever spirituality is, of a positive attitude, again ends up with victimizing a patient. who will my to say what is your positive attitude? you may decide you have the intense feelings of grief around url must. i can try to help people when the grief, what i call pathological form, but even then i tried to step back and particularly am allergic to the idea the reason you're not getting better is because you're not thinking positively enough. that is part of the reason i wrote the book. there are so many self-help books about cancer that say that you're not getting better enough and i am very allergic to that and i start off by saying i will not go there. i respect your decision but for me to say that as a doctor creates a cycle of claim that i really want to avoid. thank you. [applause] >> in this is a book not just
someone might use grief to heal. somebody may use depression. for someone dealing with their illness, it might involve entering as space full of grief for depression and that maybe there mechanism. and to force my understanding of whatever spirituality is, of a positive attitude, again ends up with victimizing a patient. who will my to say what is your positive attitude? you may decide you have the intense feelings of grief around url must. i can try to help people when the grief, what i call...
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>> we are used to people trying to tell us -- we should have a more sophisticated population of agitated people that we don't take seriously. we take these things with a grain of salt and with some discretion. i am not sure i see this as a threat to participatory democracy that one might charge, the influence of corporations with representative institutions, lobby and another issue to discuss. they had no real experience at this. all we can do is put words in their mouth. they repair concern with corruption. turtle having private interests in representative institution. no doubt they care about that. with a particular form that occurs in our day, most often a person says or what they think. is another question of their politics being put into the mouths of people who never understood the situation. >> host: this is booktv's index program. we are live. barbara in seattle. you are on with pauline maier. >> caller: what would washington have wanted the revolutionary war without thomas paine's common sense? >> guest: common sense called for independence. that certainly was important. i am no
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he says, help us out. they brought down his notes and his audiotapes and his unfinished manuscripts and said, we need your help. this is what christopher anderson writes. he spent six pages on this and a book that is obviously not done to support me. he has no interest in appealing to my audience. i read 80 reviews of christopher andersen's book. it was even on chris matthews. of those, do you know how many of them mentioned the single most newsworthy revelation and that. >> reporter: zero. it was at that moment that i knew, i know. my friends are saying, get your pulitzer prize speech ready. i said, you don't know this world as well as i do. and going to happen. zero out of 80. i went public. here is how the internet works. the people in the dead tree media don't understand or appreciate it. because the internet the press. my wife wonders why don't watch tv, an open sewer of untreated and unfiltered information. the internet existed in 1933 and 1933 and died like walter duranty would not have been able to
he says, help us out. they brought down his notes and his audiotapes and his unfinished manuscripts and said, we need your help. this is what christopher anderson writes. he spent six pages on this and a book that is obviously not done to support me. he has no interest in appealing to my audience. i read 80 reviews of christopher andersen's book. it was even on chris matthews. of those, do you know how many of them mentioned the single most newsworthy revelation and that. >> reporter:...
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she was one of us. she was on deadline. it was something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turn now not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her hundred books. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] i think we've got some time before seven o'clock for some questions, and i'd love to hear from you if you got questions about what i said or experience of your own that you'd like to bring to this, and i see -- i think i see a hand right there, and would you like me to repeat the question, or is there a mic on? go ahead, ma'am. >> did jackie have any particular literary agents she relied on? >> that's a good question. i think the answer is no. she -- scott moyers remembers she didn't like taking lunches with literary agents because there was a sense if she did it with one or two, everyone would want to have lunch with her
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so i use this event at the beginning of the book because i think it helps us to apprehend the powerful appeal of these underground newspapers for young readers in the 1960s. the tribe's reporters left any pretense of objectivity. they grew out of their own subculture, and then the examiner which, by the way, was the flagship of the hearst newspaper chain used this template they clearly invested this describing this event as a woodstock-style concert, and they got it completely wrong. these underground newspapers started emerging, as i say, in the mid '60s. they represent maybe one of the largest and most spontaneous growth in the history of publishing. many in 1965 there were five -- in 1965 there were five such newspapers, the berkeley barb and the free press, there was the east village in new york, the estate in detroit and, ironically for me and matt because we went to michigan state, the first campus-based newspaper was in east lansing, michigan. towards the end of 1966 these papers started sprouting up quickly in every pocket and region of the country, and by the end of the '60s,
so i use this event at the beginning of the book because i think it helps us to apprehend the powerful appeal of these underground newspapers for young readers in the 1960s. the tribe's reporters left any pretense of objectivity. they grew out of their own subculture, and then the examiner which, by the way, was the flagship of the hearst newspaper chain used this template they clearly invested this describing this event as a woodstock-style concert, and they got it completely wrong. these...
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he uses the image of the ganglion. he says rather than the hierarchy flowing down from one or more individuals of the top, or even the classic steel structure of the clandestine organization the other iranian opposition must resemble the dingley in thank the bundle of nerve cells where each part of the system is constantly and instantly in touch with all other parts. that was an and dhaka its image. we will take one more question. i feel there was something -- yes. please. >> is reform possible within the system? it seems like there's so many elements working against it, the revolutionary guard, the guardian council. it seems like you have to these of these elements before the reform can happen. and if you do that it seems like it is open revolt. so what would you recommend for the reform to take place within the system? >> it's a good question. the question is how do you dissolve those institutions of control. one way would be to just go for the sort of tunisian and each option model where there is a call for comprehe
he uses the image of the ganglion. he says rather than the hierarchy flowing down from one or more individuals of the top, or even the classic steel structure of the clandestine organization the other iranian opposition must resemble the dingley in thank the bundle of nerve cells where each part of the system is constantly and instantly in touch with all other parts. that was an and dhaka its image. we will take one more question. i feel there was something -- yes. please. >> is reform...
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ayers, narrative gentry can be useful to all of this. obama. truth is the best corrective. ayers, the mind works in contradiction, and honesty requires the writer to reveal disputes with the self. notice with the self. obama, but i suspect we can't pretend the contradictions of the situation will exist can do is choose. ayers, the reader must see the struggle not by the tourist what wyatt program. obama, and all and all of an intellectual journey i imagine for myself complete with last point and strict itinerary. ayers, narrative raptors strive for signature but must be aware of the struggle for the honesty. obama, i was engaged in a imperial struggle. someone -- by the way, this is the only postmodern bouck obama route. it shows up and nothing else he ever wrote except dreams from my father. there's not a word in any of the articles otherwise. also at that point in the postmodern fling as well the grooves in which they had fallen and even the stitch together nature of their lives these are distinctive freezes, and the other thing i'm reading in the fugitive days is that af
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up on booktv william coo and recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis who worked as an editor for doubleday and flaking. she never wrote a memoir of her own but her project selections as an editor mirrored her own personal interests. from among these were a history of thomas jefferson and his relationship with sally headings. a book on the assassination of john lennon and an effort to convince michael jackson to write a memoir. .. and it's true of jacqueline kennedy onassis. and think she may not have been willing to tell you herself about the 100 books she brought into print when she was an editor first of viking and then at doubleday for the last 20 years of her life, from 1975 to 1994. if anything, editors books are more indicative of her personality because they include what she has selected, invested time and. so what i'd like to do is tell you a story of those 100 books in a little bit about how they connect to her life in who she
tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> coming up on booktv william coo and recalls the publishing career of jacqueline kennedy onassis who worked as an editor for doubleday and flaking. she never wrote a memoir of her own but her project selections as an editor mirrored her own personal interests. from among these were a history of thomas jefferson and his relationship with sally headings. a book on the assassination of john lennon and an effort to convince michael jackson to...
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fred used this phrase once. mandated diversity. where the state comes in and says, you have to have a certain quota, a certain number. i'm more concerned with diversity as an ideological policy, where it bleeds out into the news coverage, where it translates into a kind of solicitude toward minorities, where it translates into a kind of demographic -- translates into endorsing the politics of proportionallism, set-asides, quotas, university admissions, where it translates into vilifying those who are trying to roll bang affirmative action programs, such as ward connerly in california, prop 209. connerly was the subject of an extremely insulting and demeaning magazine story, the gist of which was he wasn't black enough and he was a self-hating black, and that's why he was leading the leather to roll back affirmative action in california. horrible, horrible story. the evident to -- the effort to raise standards at kuhny in 1997, was interpreted by bob herbert, a columnist with the "times," as ethnic cleansing because it was felt that
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she was one of us. she was on a deadline. is something any of us would have done to get our books in on the deadline into print. reading jackie was also running jackie, and for the most authentic vision of that woman intent on getting one of her titles into print turned out not to a picture of her, but to the pages of one of her 100 bucks. thank you very much. [applause] >> i think we've got some time before 7:00 for some questions. and i would love to hear from many of you. if you have questions about what i said or experience of your own that you would like to bring to this. i see a hand right there. and would you like me to repeat the question or to have a mic on her and she'll be okay? why don't you go ahead? >> -- any particular agent she relied on? >> unit, that's a good question. and i think the answer is no. scott moyers remembered that she didn't like taking lunches with literary agents, because there was a sense that if she did it with one or two, all of them would want to come and have lunch with her. and so, her m
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so we certainly invite people to e-mail us, bring their books to our attention, send us their publicity packets so we know in plenty of time that it's coming, and we can decide whether it's one we want to take a shot at reviewing. >> mr. stewart, you said that a lot of your reviewers and people involved in the washington independent review of books have backgrounds in writing and publishing. what's your background, and give us a snapshot of some of the people who will be participating. >> well, my background is i was a lawyer for many years, but i'm now an author, have done a couple of books on american history, one on writing the constitution, the summer of 1787, one on the impeachment trial of andrew johnson, "impeached," and i have a new one coming out this fall called "american emperor." the other folks involved come from journalism, there are book writers as well. we've been so lucky in recruiting reviewers. we've got for a book on the eichmann trial in israel we were able to get judge patricia walt who was on the war crimes tribunal for yugoslavia. we've been able to get a leading
so we certainly invite people to e-mail us, bring their books to our attention, send us their publicity packets so we know in plenty of time that it's coming, and we can decide whether it's one we want to take a shot at reviewing. >> mr. stewart, you said that a lot of your reviewers and people involved in the washington independent review of books have backgrounds in writing and publishing. what's your background, and give us a snapshot of some of the people who will be participating....
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use this time to learn a skill. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. ..
use this time to learn a skill. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. ..
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give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to get right to make sure the u.s. and european countries are back on track. >> host: it's like a couple different books in one book. there's the story of the decline of the west, the rise of the east, and the basic premise of the lines are going to cross. >> guest: you can argue there's an absolute part for sure talking about the west in isolation and what the issues are going on there, and then, of course, we live in an amazing time of china and other emerging economies have done the unthinkable, moving hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. of course, th
give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to...
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use this time to learn skills. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. >> host: not even for the prisons ways that? >> guest: because of organized religion was in any way the peacemaker there wouldn't be all of these religious wars going on in the world. >> host: use it in your family there was religion. >> guest: christianity. >> host: by the way it happened to your brother. your brother went on to harvard and became the superintendent of boston schools cities quite successful pity he didn't stammer. >> guest: he didn't have all. >> host: look what you've become. i think more people know you and your brother. >> guest: . my brother passed away unfortunately, but >> host: so for you at 74, the bottom line that comes in this book is just enough, you've made it. >> guest: just enough. post the that's what you said to mandela. we made it. we made it. just enough at 74. >> guest: this book is
use this time to learn skills. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. >> host: not even for the prisons ways that? >> guest: because of organized religion was in any way the peacemaker there wouldn't be all of these religious wars going on in the world. >> host: use it in your family there was religion. >> guest: christianity....
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but at the same time the fact that i use those -- fact that i use those institutions should not necessarily mean that i wouldn't like to see them changed. >> in the past, you know, you look back from the time that you left hungary and went to england and then the united states, where were you politically along the way, the way that the united states would relate to during a cold war country like china, one of these countries? were you on the side of most of the administrations here an their foreign policies? >> i was very clearly on the side of the west. and therefore the united states was the leader of the free world. it doesn't mean that i was supporting all of the policies. in fact living in the free world you have to be critical. so i was actually quite critical of clinton's policies. i was very critical of the missed opportunity in -- when the soviet system collapsed. i was advocating for a more interventionist approach. i thought this -- i talked about a new marshal plan and i was laughed at when i talked about it. and so i was critical. i was critical of our policies in bosnia, kosov
but at the same time the fact that i use those -- fact that i use those institutions should not necessarily mean that i wouldn't like to see them changed. >> in the past, you know, you look back from the time that you left hungary and went to england and then the united states, where were you politically along the way, the way that the united states would relate to during a cold war country like china, one of these countries? were you on the side of most of the administrations here an...
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used to dress very well. so i got that from my family, so i dress very well too. of so i wear a hat because i'm undercover all the time. >> host: now, you -- in the book it's mentioned that at the 2000 world reconciliation day in australia you're there with nelson mandela. >> guest: yes. >> host: and you said it was quite a celebration because the two of you, two people who love boxing, two former prisoners, people who spent a good deal of time in the jail, you said to each other, we're here, we made it, we made it. >> guest: that's what he said to me, you know? e was in south africa in 1965 before most folks even understood whether south africa even existed. >> host: this is before you went to jail. >> guest: this was during my prize fighting years. and nelson had just gone in 1964, and he was persona non grata in south africa which means that you couldn't, you couldn't see his picture, you couldn't even speak his name, you know? and my guide at that time was a young 16-year-old boy called steven. and he use
used to dress very well. so i got that from my family, so i dress very well too. of so i wear a hat because i'm undercover all the time. >> host: now, you -- in the book it's mentioned that at the 2000 world reconciliation day in australia you're there with nelson mandela. >> guest: yes. >> host: and you said it was quite a celebration because the two of you, two people who love boxing, two former prisoners, people who spent a good deal of time in the jail, you said to each...